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...What's the big idea?" argued Alderman T. J. Byrne, opposed. "Nobody who is dead is in a hurry to get anywhere." Mayor William Hale Thompson ruled the bill defeated...
...week the University of Virginia fell heir, by the will of Graham F. Blandy, Manhattan stockbroker, to $600,000 with which it was directed to inaugurate an agricultural school. This school, when finished, will represent one more marked advance in the university's progress, under President Edwin A. Alderman (elected 1904), from a small college serving a limited class to a large university meeting the needs of a commonwealth...
...extend the advantages of a liberal university to many classes, and not only to select young bloods such as needy Poet Poe found and tried to live up to at Virginia, that President Alderman strove from the first for a bigger university. Now his appeal to the intelligent farming class, of which Virginia like the whole country has great need, will be fortified...
Doubtless, by this time, enough has been said concerning Col. Carmi Alderman Thompson, rotund Personal Representative of President Coolidge, to make him a public character. He spent three months in the Philippines; he used two more going and coming. He compiled a report. It was not until last week that Colonel Thompson's report was given to the public. President Coolidge, having pondered thereon for a fortnight, despatched the report to Congress...
Berthold Cronson, alderman, schools committee, New York...